Abstract. This paper describes PARMENIDES, a system which facilitates structured debate about government policy. 1 The PARMENIDES System The last two decades have seen a deliberati...
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter Mc...
Cooperation is the fundamental underpinning of multi-agent systems, allowing agents to interact to achieve their goals. Where agents are self-interested, or potentially unreliable...
The cultural heritage domain dealing with digital surrogates of rare and fragile historic artifacts is one of the most promising areas for establishing collaboratories, i.e. shared...
Although open-source software development has virtues, there is reason to believe that the approach would not have a significant effect on the security of today’s systems. The ...
In urban areas, city noises represent today a great problem. They are real nuisances for city-dwellers. Noises are caused by traffic, road works, factories, and also by people. So...